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Bruno Bruni , to the century Brunette Bruni (Civitella del Tronto, 13 January 1590 – Tembién, 12 April 1640), was a Jesuit and Italian missionary.

Rome, facade of the Roman College
Ethiopia: the Tigrè region

Born in 1590 in Civitella del Tronto, Abruzzo town of today’s province of Teramo, from Brunamonte Bruni and Tisbia Trambocca, both of Colonnella [first] . Entered in 1605 in the Roman college for the interest of the paternal uncle, a member of the Society of Jesus [2] , in 1608 Bruni became a Jesuit novice and manifested the desire to become a missionary [2] . After completing his studies, he was in charge of teaching rhetoric and human letters in Florence. After a few years, returned to Rome, he was ordained a priest [2] .
In 1623 he was chosen, together with other Jesuit confreres, to accompany Ethiopia, where Catholicism, thanks also to the favor of the Negus Susenos (1572-1632), was spreading, the Portuguese Jesuit Alfonso Mendez (1579-1659), new patriarch of those lands [3] . Bruni’s long journey, through Mozambique, ended in 1625 when the religious reached the tigrè, where he remained for about three years [2] . However, the decisive support of the emperor to Catholic proselytism caused, in some areas of the empire, the aversion of the faithful and the Coptic clergy.

The Palazzo di Fāsiladas in Gondar

In 1628 he moved to Goggiam, in addition to continuing his missionary work of catechesis and conversion, Bruni reconstructed, personally participating with his work, an ancient fifteenth -century church dedicating it to the Madonna [2] . The opposition to the diffusion of Catholicism, which became stronger and stronger, finally extended to the court environments: Susenyos was forced to revoke the permits granted to the mission and then to abdicate [2] . The successor, his son Fāsiladas [4] , he expelled the Jesuits and began the persecutions against converted Catholics. Brui, unlike the Patriarch Mendez and some missionaries, decided to remain moving again, with two other companions, in the tigrè, trusting in the protection first of a local leader Giovanni Akai and then, forced to take refuge in some caves, by Tecla Manuel [2] . Betrayed by the new protector and captured by a gang that hunted him, most of the missionaries were killed. Bruni, wounded and believed dead, managed to save himself with the help of some local Catholics [2] .

Moving back to another area of ​​the Tigrè, Bruni put himself under the protection of the Governor Za-Marim, a son-in-law’s son-in-law of the old emperor Susenos, who, despite the pressures, resisted the injunctions to deliver the missionaries [2] . The death of Za-Mariam had the events precipitated: Bruni and his surviving companion, the Portuguese Jesuit Father Luis Cardeira, took refuge in the embankment Salam where they resisted for eighteen months. A false promise of being able to leave the country unscathed convinced them to abandon the refuge: captured, they were hanged on April 12, 1640 in Tembièn [2] .

In 1902 the cause of beatification for Bruni and the other confreres killed in Ethiopia was introduced [2] .

  1. ^ Niccola Palma, Ecclesiastical and civil history of the northernmost region of the Kingdom of Naples. Said by the ancient prætutium, in the low times aprutium today City of Teramo and Diocese Aprutina , vol. 5, Teramo, 1835-1836, p. 25.
  2. ^ a b c d It is f g h i j k Source: S. Bono, Biographical Dictionary of Italians , references and links in the bibliography.
  3. ^ Alfonso Mendez, also indicated as AFFSO Mendes, had been appointed Patriarch of Ethiopia in 1622.
  4. ^ This is the handwriting used in Biographical Dictionary (Bibliography), other sources indicate it as “phazilides”.
  • Carlo Conti-Rossini, « BRUNI, Bruno »The rumor in the Italian Encyclopedia , Volume 7, Rome, Institute of the Italian Encyclopedia, 1930.
  • Salvatore Bono, « BRUNI, Bruno » in Biographical Dictionary of Italians , Volume 14, Rome, Institute of the Italian Encyclopedia, 1972.

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  • Roberto Ricci, The Jesuit Father Bruno Bruni of Santa Croce and his martyrs in Ethiopia of the ‘600 , L’Aquila, Abruzzo Deputation of History Patria, 1996.
  • Carlo Conti-Rossini, BRUNI, Bruno , in Italian Encyclopedia , Institute of the Italian Encyclopedia, 1930. Modifica su Wikidata
  • Bruni, Bruno . are sape.it , De Agostini. Modifica su Wikidata
  • Salvatore Bono, BRUNI, Bruno , in Biographical Dictionary of Italians , vol. 14, Institute of the Italian Encyclopedia, 1972. Modifica su Wikidata

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